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...more or less jocularly called the "Ashland Workweek." It be gins around 8 a.m., lasts ordinarily until midnight, runs seven days a week with only occasional breaks and brief vacations. "I don't think we're any smarter than the competition," explains Blazer, "but I think we outwork them." As a result, in the past five years Ashland has almost tripled sales to $805 million. This week Ashland will regroup 13 small chemical companies acquired since 1963 into a subsidiary with $300 million in sales to be known as Ashland Chemical...
...carpenter's apron and carrying his own hammer and nails. When he tried to climb a ladder to help nail roofing, a foreman shooed him away. The would-be carpenter was furious. "They think I'm too old!" he grumped. "That's all nonsense. I can outwork half these guys, and I'm as handy with a hammer as the next one!" To prove it, he devoted three hand-blistering hours to nailing sheathing onto the back and side of the house...
...General Motors, came wearing a carpenter's apron and carrying his own hammer and nails. He was furious when a foreman refused to let him climb a ladder to nail roofing. "They think I'm too old," he stormed. "That's all nonsense. I can outwork half these guys, and I'm as handy with a hammer as the next...
...Moses thinks there is still plenty of work to be done; for all the progress, Arkansas lost 2% in population from 1940 to 1950, still has 1,250,000 acres of idle farm land. Says Ham Moses: "We've got to out-plan, out-think and outwork all the other states if we are to maintain the pace of industrial growth we've set in the past decade...
...sport." He played the Texas amateur circuit, trying to do as well as such crack golfers as Ralph Guldahl (who became U.S. Open champion in 1937 and 1938) and Nelson (U.S. Open champion in 1939). Hogan's rule, then as now: "If you can't outplay them, outwork them." At 19, when his game was good but still as unpredictable as a slippery green, Ben Hogan turned pro. Then he decided to get out of Fort Worth...